Question: Suppose that right now I am about to draw the surrounding light. What is this thought that I must have:? It is “to become similar to Him”? Do I rely soley on thought?

Answer: How can one know what they must correspond to? On the lower degree you will never know what the upper one is; this is impossible. If you knew, then that knowledge would hold you on the higher degree. Such is the nature of the spiritual realm, wherever you are capable of existing, is where you are.

The spiritual world does not operate like our world where I might conceptually “be” in some place even though I have not physically arrived there yet, where I simply buy a ticket and go. In the upper world there is no such thing! Even as you ascend spiritual degrees, you will never be able to know with certainty what the next higher degree is, because you must rise to it “in faith above reason.”

To be similar to the upper one means becoming more spiritual, more bestowing, more perfect, thinking less about yourself and striving to correspond more fully to the upper one. In accordance with this, picture any images and forms.

If this is not enough, ask that you be given an understanding of the upper one for the sake of becoming similar to Him. This is called “the light that returns to the source” when you ask for the revelation of the Creator, not in order to enjoy it, but in order to correct yourself by means of it.

It is permitted to ask this, that is, to demand correction instead of pleasures, so that the corrections themselves will be our fulfillment, will lead to connection, to adhesion. “The reward for a commandment is to know the one who commanded.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/21/26, Rabash, “We Should Always Discern between Torah and Work”

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Question: How can one convince the friends to advance?

Answer: I simply convey my joy and energy to them in an artificial way. I come and see that everyone is sitting there dejected, myself included, but, let’s say, I turn on the radio, and it starts playing; after all, it doesn’t care, it is at the inanimate level.

Even though the friends are at the animate level, this inanimate level can set them in motion. We see that this is indeed how it works.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/19/26, Rabash, “Concerning Hesed [Mercy]”

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Why is a point of bestowal, called Israel, the desire to receive, added to our heart? Is it added in order to increase it from its minimal magnitude to one hundred percent? It grows only on the “flesh” called the will to receive.

This is a point of Bina, and the whole heart is Malchut. You must connect the heart to Bina in order to attain reception for the sake of bestowal.

All the degrees are built on that “flesh” that you receive from the Klipot, from your desires. Obstacles come to you from these desires, subsequently you re-enter the realization of the greatness of the Creator and restrict your will to receive. For this, you elevate the realization of the greatness of the Creator above that desire, and build it like a head (Rosh) above the will to receive. Excellent, you have successfully performed an “entry.” And immediately you fall and forget; this is called an “exit.” Our entire spiritual path consists of such “entries” and “exits.”

What does it mean that you “fall”? It means you receive the next desire to receive. And once again, upon this new desire you must build the realization that “Israel, the Creator, and the Torah are one” again; this aspiration toward the greatness of the Creator must rise above your desire to receive.

And again, this helps you build a degree where the realization of the group is above everything. You humble yourself before the group in order to establish the correct attitude and not deviate from this line. And each time, it is work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is Nothing that Has No Place,’ in the Work?”

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Awe before the Creator is not an animalistic fear for oneself, for one’s corporeal life. It is directed in the opposite direction; it arises when a person stands in solidarity with the program of creation and the purpose of creation, and wishes to bring them to fruition, regardless under what conditions.

The main thing is that one becomes imbued with this idea; consequently, it becomes the most important thing in one’s life, despite any disturbances.

The fact is that it is upon this sense of awe that we build our relationship to the spiritual world. After all, we are created beings, which in Hebrew means “those who are outside the spiritual world”; meaning, we do not yet reside in the true spiritual world.

Precisely because we are outside the upper world, by revealing it we are able to completely attain it, and at the same time remain created beings who achieve equivalence with the Creator. It turns out that we consist, as it were, of two opposing element drawn from all that exists.

Therefore the awe that subsequently arises in us is no longer the fear for ourselves that existed at the beginning, but awe about how I can truly realize the program of creation and exist within it in such a way that it bears absolutely no relation to my self-interest. This concept is so sublime and beautiful that it must be in absolute detachment from everything and exist by itself.

Question: Why is there such a large number of animalistic fears, about 800 types?

Answer: The fact is that within us there are only 613 desires, and this means 613 kinds of fear, according to the number of our desires that may remain unfulfilled. And of course, there are also derivatives of them when several desires together and separately divide and connect with each other.

A person is a being who constantly fears that he will not be fulfilled. The more he fears, the more dangerous he becomes. All the actions of gangsters, villains, thieves, and murderers stem from fear, not from self-confidence. Their confidence is only a facade, a means to mask their underlying fear; otherwise they would be calm.

A person who is confident in himself does not move. It does not matter to him what happens somewhere, somehow, with someone; he is absolutely self-sufficient. But any active person acts out of fear.

Kabbalah, the only wisdom that speaks about this, says that fear is useful and good, but only when you redirect it from yourself to others, so that you have fear that you will not be able to fulfill them, to bestow to them.

Thus, 613 fears turn into 613 forms of awe, into 613 commandments (Mitzvot). Otherwise one cannot escape fear because everything is based on the desire to be fulfilled, on the desire to receive, since desire is the entire matter of creation.

Therefore, when you look at all the so-called heroes, you understand that subconsciously they are driven by fear.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/1/16

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